Week-2 Reflection

Dear reader,

This week has been much more productive and quite hectic as compared to the previous one since the earlier one was just a warm-up for me as a learner and I hope the same to other course mates. So my learning repertoire in this week list is pretty rich and beneficial at the same time.

            The first task was to go through different websites listed generically on the database of www.noodletools.com  which was bookmarked on the website of Distance learning as prescribed by our co-operative course instructor, Robert Eliot and the entire team members. I am very thankful to them. Those websites were:

www.academicinfo.com , www.infotopia.info , www.allexperts.com , www.searchusa.gov , www.witcombe.sbc.edu , www.jurn.org , www.biography.com , www.who2.com, www.education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopaedia, www.pressdisplay.com ,www.maps.nationalgeographic.com ,etc.

In these websites we can define our topic, find quality results, do research in a specific discipline, get the timeliness of information that one needs, facts of person/places/company, look up for opinions and perspectives, need a specific type of media, etc.

            As we had to reflect what websites we used previously, except google as 'scene-setting', we also had to find out the pros as well as the cons of the websites of our choice. In that case I wrote about some websites, such as answer.com, jstor.org, wikipaedia.org and even google.com.

            The next task was to write out the 'abcd model' of five behavioural objectives of any teaching content, which could be of even technology classroom. Here 'c' stands for conditions of teaching item, 'a' for audience, 'b' refers for specific behavior and'd' means degree of mastery.  Known as the 'Bloom's Taxonmy', these action verbs help all the concerned people for planning the objectives in order to carry out the related activities for accomplishing them. It was another very good learning of different examples under cognition (comprehension, application and synthesis), psycho-motor and affective model of learning. Although I learned these all in my third semester under the course 'Curriculum Designing and Materials Development' while developing chapters and defining the goals and objectives of each and also practiced in a writing session, but those were found to be vaporizing. As I mentioned earlier for my previous learning on these all, it was not a can of worms for me to write out though it took some time for thinking some specific verbs on my own and tallying them against the Bloom's Taxonomy. These all paved a fine way for me to develop good objectives aligned with Bloom. My learning was honing on and on!

            Thenceforth I had to develop an objective under each domain of taxonomy of my any teaching activity which I taught in the class. This gave me good time to reflect back to my class and the good activities carried out and rooms to improve. I pictured out my teaching learning milieu and individual learning vis-à-vis technology, and figured out the possible ways out for further improvement on the posting.

            I commented on a nicenet posting made by one of the course mates, Maheshwor from our nation. He was good at writing the objectives of his classroom teaching, yet I found little proportion for improvement and recommended to be more specific.   

           

Thanks for reading.

Young & Yummy Yubaraj

Kathmandu,Nepal

In a 'Teacher Training Internship Programme' ,Fourth Semester '12 at Kathmandu University, Lalitpur, Nepal